Entire Earth and Sky update
Leslie Roberts' event at Powell's tonight has been cancelled. However, she'll try to reschedule, and if she does, the new date will be posted here! Continue reading Entire Earth and Sky update
Category: Events
More March Madness (what else did you expect from the publishers of The Madness of March?)
We here at the University of Nebraska Press celebrated opening day of March Madness with a little party including such basketball staples as brackets, a free throw contest, and little smokies. And let it be known that we’re in good company: This, for those of you who don’t recognize it, is President Obama’s bracket. Go Louisville!As our regular readers know, UNP author Alan Zaremba (The Madness of March: Bonding and Betting with the Boys in Las Vegas) is in Vegas, watching the games and blogging up a storm. Here’s an excerpt from a post from last night: …When Duquesne … Continue reading More March Madness (what else did you expect from the publishers of The Madness of March?)
Baseball books, baseball song, and plain old baseball
As the end of college basketball season (which I’ve devoted much space to on this blog in recent weeks) draws near, baseball season is in full force. And the University of Nebraska Press LOVES baseball season. NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture holds an annual conference each spring, and this year, two of our authors will be featured speakers there. Lee Lowenfish, author of Branch Rickey, will give a presentation on his book – which is now out in paperback – on Friday, and Monica Nucciarone, author of Alexander Cartwright, will speak on Saturday. The conference is in … Continue reading Baseball books, baseball song, and plain old baseball
Another week, another cold Friday, and perhaps, another snowy Saturday, too. It’s becoming all too predictable here in the Midwest. Luckily, there is news in the world of the University of Nebraska Press. First off, one of our authors is in New York this weekend, attending the Festival of New French Writing. Abdourahman Waberi, author of In the United States of Africa, will give a lecture this afternoon. The festival’s web site notes that In the United States of Africa was “unanimously hailed by critics” when it was published in French in 2006 (yay accolades!). The UNP’s English translation of … Continue reading
AAUP winners at the Sheldon, Camuto still on tour, and the NYT says nice things about the new Kindle
If you haven’t been to the Sheldon Museum of Art to check out the AAUP Book, Jacket and Journal Show, now’s the time to go. The show, featuring the best examples of design from university presses in the United States and Canada, will be at the Sheldon through Friday. Among the books in the show is the University of Nebraska Press title A Life in Letters. In other news, Robert Camuto’s tour of Seattle, San Francisco and New York is nearly over. If you haven’t been following the author of Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country on his … Continue reading AAUP winners at the Sheldon, Camuto still on tour, and the NYT says nice things about the new Kindle
Joern on Des Moines community radio, happy birthday to Wallace Stegner, and goodbye to Silas the cat
There’s lots going on in the world of the University of Nebraska Press today. Let’s get right down to it. First, what are you doing at 12:42 p.m. today? If you’re going to be at your computer, you can stream an interview with Pamela Carter Joern, author of The Floor of the Sky and The Plain Sense of Things. Joern will be on Des Moines community radio station 99.1, visiting with John Busbee, host of The Culture Buzz. Second, today is the 100th anniversary of Wallace Stegner’s birth. Stegner, whose novel Angle of Repose won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction … Continue reading Joern on Des Moines community radio, happy birthday to Wallace Stegner, and goodbye to Silas the cat
Camuto on tour, Toor at AWP and one last look at Valentines
University of Nebraska Press fans in Seattle, San Francisco and New York will have a chance to meet a UNP author frequently mentioned on this blog (and in many wine columns) this week. Robert Camuto, author of Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country, will be in Seattle tomorrow (Feb. 17), in San Francisco Feb. 18 and 19, and in New York Feb. 21 through 25. For information on where you can see him (and taste some of the wines he describes in his book), visit his web site. You can read reviews of Corkscrewed in the Seattle Weekly … Continue reading Camuto on tour, Toor at AWP and one last look at Valentines
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve at the Great Plains Art Museum
University of Nebraska Press author Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve will read from some of her many books at the Great Plains Art Museum (1155 Q Street, Hewit Place, Lincoln) from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 27. Sneve is a well-known Lakota writer and a recipient of the 2000 National Humanities Medal. She is the author of Lana’s Lakota Moons, Grandpa Was a Cowboy and an Indian and Other Stories, Chichi Hoohoo Bogeyman and many other children’s books. Her memoir, Completing the Circle, won the North American Indian Prose Award. The event is free and open to the public. Continue reading Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve at the Great Plains Art Museum
This Week in History: December 8-12, 2008
Well readers it’s been a good week. We are now just two weeks away from Christmas, and of course the holiday season is overwhelming! Everywhere you look there are sales going on, and ideas for practical, homemade gifts. I have to tell you it seems that one of the few good things to come out of this recession will be creativity! Who knows maybe this economy will help us all find our own inner Martha Stewart. I’m sorry to say there are no tips for xmas gifts in this edition of This Week in History but we do have John … Continue reading This Week in History: December 8-12, 2008
Author Mimi Schwartz to read and discuss Good Neighbors, Bad Times
University of Nebraska Press author Mimi Schwartz will be appearing in Lincoln, Nebraska on Tuesday, November 18 for a book signing, reading, and discussion of her recent memoir Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father’s German Village. The event will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Dudley Bailey Library, 228 Andrews Hall, on the University of Nebraska−Lincoln campus. Mimi Schwartz recovers the history of a German Village and the journey into her family's past in her latest memoir, Good Neighbors, Bad Times. Schwartz grew up on her father's boyhood stories and rarely took them seriously. What was a modern American … Continue reading Author Mimi Schwartz to read and discuss Good Neighbors, Bad Times
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